I'm With You

I'm With You is truly the beginning of a new era for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The 10th album of the Los Angeles band's singular career sees the band refreshed, renewed, once again working with producer Rick Rubin. It expands the same combination of funk and finesse, intensity and tenderness that's made the Peppers sine qua non in modern rock, but with a new set of life experiences from the intervening years that coalesced into a dynamically fresh start.

I'm With You was written collectively by the four members - founding singer Anthony Kiedis and bassist Flea, drummer Chad Smith) and guitarist Josh Klinghoffer (the new guy). That process, coming after the band took two years off following its 2006-2007 world tour, happened in a full year of sessions. The result is the most heartfelt, playful and accomplished album in the band's career.